We find Democratic Senate candidate Jacky Rosen’s sanguine and naive response to the recent 83rd anniversary of Social Security Act disturbing to say the least. Rosen put out a press release touting the fact she had met with a senior citizen group in Henderson to mark the anniversary. “Social Security successfully lifts millions out of poverty and helps ensure economic … [Read more...]
Exclusive Sex Is the Best Sex
When two people decide to make a sexually exclusive commitment with an intention to permanence, it’s a big deal. A huge deal, if for no other reason than it runs contrary to evolution and biology. I’m saying that none of the other great apes (gorillas, chimps, orangutans) are monogamous. And there’s nothing to suggest otherwise about the great ape homo sapien. Nope; in terms of … [Read more...]
Hot August Nights
Attending a special event at this year’s highly successful Hot August Nights, I chanced to run into one of the creators of the event by the name of Jim Webster. I asked Jim to clarify the many stories I have heard about the beginning of Hot August Nights, so he wrote out the following: “The very beginning! How a simple meeting between two men would become a yearly event that … [Read more...]
Stop Wasting Taxpayer Money on Secret UFO Studies
As they say on “The X-Files,” the truth is out there. Apparently it is still out there, because no one has revealed it. Maybe that is because it is classified. Yeah, that’s the ticket. It’s classified. In December, The New York Times revealed that former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid had secretly managed in 2007 to direct $22 million in taxpayer money to a secret UFO study, with … [Read more...]
Machine Gun Michele and Her Low-Caliber Friends
Love hurts. I know. Because of my passion for one Italian girl, this column was censored in its entirety in March, 2015. Here’s a slightly updated version. “I didn’t realize it until I laid eyes on her in the flesh. Assemblymember Michele Fiore, R-Gomorrah South, is the embodiment of the Italian girl my mother always wanted me to marry. “Alas and alack, I was born 30 … [Read more...]
You Don’t Have to Die to Go to Hell
Sometimes you have to go to hell. Oh, I’m not talking about religion here. In fact, I don’t use the word “hell” very often to describe some afterlife place of deliberate torment as just punishment for not belonging to the right religion. No; when I say you sometimes have to go to hell, I mean a very immediate, very real, “here and now” experience. You don’t have to die to go … [Read more...]
World’s Strongest Man
The time was April of 1957, some sixty one years ago, when northern Nevada was to receive its most spectacular appearance on television. The occasion was to occur in the Sky Room of the Mapes Hotel when strong man Paul Anderson would make a three or four minute live appearance on the famous Ed Sullivan Show. As reported in the Press, the popular Sullivan Show had an audience … [Read more...]
Too Many Willing to Forgo First Amendment Rights
Here is proof positive that ignorance is hazardous to freedom. The Freedom Forum’s 2018 First Amendment survey, conducted in May and June, asked 1,009 Americans to name the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. Only one person could name all five. One out of more than 1,000. But perhaps the most telling aspect of the survey was when knowledge of the First … [Read more...]